Rare Ltd. Talks About Microsoft Mismanagement

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osed125 said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:
Just looked up Tossel. Apparently he joined Rare at the tail end of Diddy Kong Racing and left after the completion of Kinect Sports. Just in case people are wondering.

I have no doubt Microsoft mismanagement helped contribute to the decline of Rare, but I think it's unfair to place the blame solely on the technology giant. I think it was a combination of several things, including mismanagement, the dissolution of the partnership with Nintendo, and the loss of creative talent after the acquisition by Microsoft.

Some of those developers left Rare before MS bought them. It is well known that Rare was extremely demanding with their employees, and some of them left because they were tired of the excessive work.

That's a fair point. I didn't mean to imply that everyone jumped ship because of Microsoft. Rare in 2002 wasn't the Rare of 1994-2001.